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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W.- FIsHEE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

PEA-SHELLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,026, dated September 8, 1885. Application filed May 8, 1885. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. FISHER, of the city Of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Pea- Shellers, Of which the following is aspecification.

In the description of the said invention which follows, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in' Which- Figure I is a side view of the pea-Sheller I, with certain parts thereof removed. Fig. II

is a plan of the same. Figs. III and IV are views of parts of the invention, the latter gure being in pcrspective. Fig. V shows lthe arrangement of certain feed-belts used in the machine, and hereinafter fully described.

"A is the bed-plate of the machine, secured to a board or table, B.

The shelling devices consist of a pair Of hollow feedrollers, D, a slitting-knife, E,.situ ated betweenV the said feed-rollers and the shellingrollers F F, which compress the split pod and discharge the peas therefrom; and these devices are all inclosed iu a suitable bOX, G, secured to the bed-plate A. The shelling-rollers are geared together, as shown particularly in Fig. I, and the shaft a of the upper one is provided with a grooved pulley, I-I, to which motion is transmitted through the medium ofa belt. (Not shown.) A second belt, (indicated by a dotted line in Fig. II,) communicates motion from the pulley H tO asimilar pulley, I, On a shaft, J, supported by stands b b on the bed-plate A.

A drum, K, fastenedtto the shaft J, is connected to the hollow-faced rollers D by means Of belts L L, which are preferably made Of rubber.`

By referring to Fig. V it will be seen that 'the belt-s which serve to feed the full pods to the shelling mechanism and move in the direction indicated by the arrow, change their position from a'horizontal to avertical one as they approach the hollow-faced feed-rollers. A full pod placed at c is carried by the belts toward'Y the feed-rollers, turned on its edge, and then slit by the knife Eas it passes -between the said rollers. `As the slit pod emerges from between the said liollow-faced rollers it is seized by the shelling-rollers F and compressed edgewise, which discharges the peas from the pod,the peas falling through the opening in the bed-plate and board.

A trough, M, serves to keep thelower edges Of the belts together as they approach the feed-rollers, and standards e eprevent the separation of the belts On the drum K. A

removable plate, N ,p which supports the lower gudgeons of the feed-rollers, serves to steady the belts L as they enter the box G.

I claim as my invention- Y l. In a pea-Sheller, a pair of hollow-faced rollers, a knife situated between the said rollers, and feed-belts adapted to conduct the `pods to between the said rollers, all combined substantially as specified. i

2; In a pea-Sheller, the combination of a pair Of hollow-faced rollers, belts to convey pods to the said rollers, a knife situated be tween the said rollers, and a pair of shellingrollers, substantially as specified.

C. W. ARNOLD, WM. T. HOWARD. 

